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Hill, John (1716?-1775)

Cat. Bib. Nat. Paris enters under Hill, Sir
John (pseud. Abraham Johnson), but other authorities 
do not give the name Johnson, while they
do, as a rule, ignore the supposed title "Sir".
Hill published many works anonymously, and consequently 
some of them have been credited to others, 
as "The gardener's new kalendar" (1758), attributed 
by Johnson, Hist. Eng. Gard. (1829), p.
214, to William Hanbury. Hill also took other
names, as in his tract, "The practice of gardening 
.... By Thomas Perfect" (1759), supposedly
a pupil of Hill. Again, he was responsible for
the publication of "A new method of propagating
fruit-trees and flowering shrubs" (1758), which
Johnson, p.208, says was written "under the assumed 
name of Thomas Barnes". But the latter is
usually accepted as actually written by Barnes,
while the "T. Perfect" of the "Practice of gardening" 
is considered a borrowed or fictitious
name. (MFW)

Abhandlung von dem ursprunge und der erzeugung proliferirender 
blumen. Nürnberg, 1768. See his The origin
and production of proliferous flowers.

Die art und weise durch eine regelmässige ordnung der
cultur oder wartung, gefüllte blumen aus einfachen zu ziehen. 
Nürnberg, 1766. See his A method of producing
double flowers from single.

Botanical tracts, viz: 1. Usefulness of a knowledge of
plants. 2. Outlines of a system of vegetable generation.
3. The origin of double flowers. 4. The origin of proliferous 
flowers. 5. The sleep of plants. 6. The history and
virtues of valerian. To which is added: 1. The method of
propagating trees by their parts, by T. Barnes. 2. The
practice of gardening, by T. Perfect. London, 1762, 58,
59, 62. (Brit. Mus.)
Tracts 2 and 3 are 2d ed.; 6 and 8, 3d ed.
        